It's gettin' snickly in here!

The HVS came over in the morning with a bunch of spare vegetables. She get's a delivery every week and some of it built up, so we hunkered down and got to work making some snickly snacks out of them.


Two acorn squashes, an eggplant, a couple of zucchinis, a short stack of oranges and clementines. First thing was juice all the oranges and shoot it down. HVS made matchsticks of the zucchinis, then I tossed it with equal parts flour & water and a dash of salt, then fried it in peanut oil. When close to done, added a shot of sesame oil, whipped up a simple dipping sauce of soy sauce, rice vinegar and sesame oil, and voila:


I was surprised by how really simple and surprisingly authentic tasting this dish came out. Gonna experiment with higher gluten flour, higher temp, maybe add rice flour, scallions, hmmmm...

Roasted an eggplant, peeled it, then blended it with tahini, lemon juice, garlic, a little salt and olive oil for nice baba ganoush. Acorn squashes got split, oiled, salted, a drop of molasses then roasted. Potatoes were peeled, chopped, tossed with oil, salt and minced rosemary and roasted to brown. It was fun whipping out these simple dishes. Yomomma came by around 12:30 and nibbled on some of it with us. Now only if Edie was old enough to enjoy eating (& cooking) this stuff, too!

BREAKFAST: 8:30am, good granola with organic dead milk, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

SNICKLE SNACK: 10:30-1:30pm, freshly squeezed orange juice, zucchini pancake with soy dipping sauce, a taste of baba ganoush, a small dish of rosemary roasted potatoes, a taste of roasted acorn squash, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 2:30pm, BLT, fries, coleslaw, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Met P for lunch out at Chat n' Chew on Union Square. Yuck. The menu said thick-cut bacon but my sandwich came with a large lump of deep-fried thin-cut over-salted industrial bacon, left about 2/3 of it over on the plate. Really.

PM SNACK: 5:45pm, graham crackers with chocolate, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Just woke up from a nap, needed something to get going.

DINNER: 10:30pm, kasha varnishkes with chicken, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


BONUS PIC!!